101 thoughts on “Maybe a little nervous”

Go! Never give up! I’m mid washcloth and 3/4 done a shawl (thankfully it’s a heavy weight yarn, but oh those ends to weave in for the colour changes!) I’m rooting for you and all the knitters out there cranking out the stitches!

I accidentally had some of my husband’s Death Wish Coffee.. once. I thought I was going to die! I immediately banned it in the house. Who on Earth needs that much caffeine??? I was pretty sure I was experiencing some 4th (or maybe 5th????) dimension. Insane.

I love top down knitting……no seam’s.
Last year i knitted a sweater for a larger member of our family and remember the elation of yay I’m all done and then the oh but I’ve got to sew it……I was seriously considering gifting it in kit form.

Happy holidays to you, Stephanie, and to The Blog. Celebrate everything with everyone you love. Life is too short not to cram in as much fun as possible.

Joy to the wooled,
Steph’s yarn has come.
She’s cast on two more gifts!
Let every knitter
And hooker wish her well,
While her needles click,
While her needles click, while her needles,
Her needles, her needles click!

Be thankful for your time zone: where I am the Big Day arrives in about nine hours, and I have yet to send out my Christmas cards. Oh, and the machines (electrical and otherwise) that make brandy butter have all decided today is the day to not quite work. You depend only on your hands – you can do this! Or at least, you can if anyone can…

Thank you for posting – I have been wondering. Knitterly things will be done – I am sure. Beautiful colors of yarn too. Yes, coffee, good film, music…no baking. Perhaps another can bring more cookies if needed?

I’m playing with time myself and have been reading your blog this week with great empathy! I am just now casting on the neck band for a sweater for my 22 year old son. To add to the anxiety of a time crunch, I am also feeling a little pressure from the yarn chicken. I’m glad your yarn arrived! And I know you can do it!!!

Instant coffee, in case the coffeemaker goes on strike?
Emergency shelter (i.e., your mom’s place) for Millie, in case she decides to be super evil?
Store-bought cookies, in case the oven goes on vacation?
Gift wrap &/or IOU plans for at least two gifts?
Enough screech, beer, bourbon, wine, etc. to see you through this?
Egg nog for the men in the white coats, the ones who’ll be coming to take you away?

I am finishing a gift card holder…I abandoned the kitchen scrub cloths (made by knitting cotton yarn and strips of nylon net held together) as the arthritis in my hand is protesting too much. But I got the cowls done, and the headband for my daughter in law, and that is the end of the knitting projects…I am going to try to finish the blouse I started for myself and set aside to work on the gifts. Oh, did I mention we’re having Christmas on Tuesday? I have a few more days…

Ah, the Yarn Harlot Christmas scramble. At a time of year when everything on the internet is either depressing or just blathering crap, we can always count on you to give us something Real and fun. I sometimes wonder if you do it on purpose to give us all a nice xmas gift. Either way I love it! Even when things are going much better than this year, it is super fun to watch your xmas come together.

I wish you a blessed Yule, a Merry Christmas, and all the love and joy that 2017 could possibly bring to you and your family. Thank you so much for being here for us all when we needed an escape, a comrade, a listening ear, or a knitting buddy. To several religions, this time of year celebrates a light in the darkness, and you have been our light more times than you could ever know. On this dark (though not the darkest!) night, may you find your light, and may you and your family be blessed with peace and abundance in the coming year. Merry Christmas, Harlot, and blessed be, coming at you from mid-Missouri.

I just took this picture today. It is of Buyuk Han on the north side of the wall in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Yarn bombed by Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women, working together for lasting peace.
I thought you would appreciate it in the post-holiday defrazzling.https://goo.gl/photos/MVLFAnaEP5R5DzfK7

I too am checking in several times a day while at work, interested in how it turned. I’m still slogging through my Christmas projects. Wanted to wish you and your family a wonderful New Year. I hope it brings health and happiness to you and yours.

I gifted my daughter a sweater without a neck band, and when she tried it on, we all agreed that it looked better without, more modern and interesting! Hope the outcome of your knitting crisis was similarly serendipitous. Happy New Year to all! See you on the flip side.

Since we’ve not heard from you since before Christmas, I hope, dear Harlot, that all is well. Happy New Year to you and your kin. Blessings to the mama to be, especially, and to you. I’m sure everyone can join me in saying that “we love you, dear Harlot”

Knitting of all kinds can keep. Even when very unfinished. Even knowing it’s coming can make someone feel warm and happy. But everyone is warmer and happier with actual cookies inside them. So just to say I’m totally with your priorities.